here was Zenz' bad math — it's so egregious it had to be deliberate:
His claim was that 80% of net IUDs in China were applied in Xinjiang.
"Net IUDs" means "IUDs put in minus IUDs taken out"
That number can be zero or negative, and it approaches zero at equilibrium
Dividing Xinjiang's net number by China's net number does not give you a valid percent. The number is meaningless, it could be negative or even a division by zero.
Putting a percent symbol next to that quantity was almost certainly deliberate fraud. I can't see how you would sit down to do these calculations and not realize the problem
It makes sense that Xinjiang's net number of IUD placements was higher than China's average, because the net rate per capita is going to be much higher in a developing region than in developed region where people have had IUD access for decades and the net rate is approaching equilibrium. Zenz twisted the numbers to make it seem like an astronomical number of IUDs were being applied in Xinjiang.
I specifically remember walking a liberal through the math on Reddit once and he literally could not fathom it. It short-circuited his brain, the idea that the BBC would repeat impossible math to shit-talk China simply could not be true, he was getting desperate. He was so confident that the math was correct that he was talking to me like I was a dogbrained 4 year old that couldn't understand basic addition or something lmao. I'm like rubbing his face into the chalkboard going "If Henan has 69% of new IUD insertions using this same formula, how could Xinjiang have 80% as well? Two regions alone account for over 100% of new IUD insertions?" and he's screeching IT'S REAL IT'S REAL
here was Zenz' bad math — it's so egregious it had to be deliberate:
It makes sense that Xinjiang's net number of IUD placements was higher than China's average, because the net rate per capita is going to be much higher in a developing region than in developed region where people have had IUD access for decades and the net rate is approaching equilibrium. Zenz twisted the numbers to make it seem like an astronomical number of IUDs were being applied in Xinjiang.
<some quote about the evils of statistics>
I specifically remember walking a liberal through the math on Reddit once and he literally could not fathom it. It short-circuited his brain, the idea that the BBC would repeat impossible math to shit-talk China simply could not be true, he was getting desperate. He was so confident that the math was correct that he was talking to me like I was a dogbrained 4 year old that couldn't understand basic addition or something lmao. I'm like rubbing his face into the chalkboard going "If Henan has 69% of new IUD insertions using this same formula, how could Xinjiang have 80% as well? Two regions alone account for over 100% of new IUD insertions?" and he's screeching IT'S REAL IT'S REAL